Haselton Glacier
| Haselton Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 21 ′ S , 160 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Barwick Valley | |
The Haselton Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in an east-northeast direction between the Gibson Spur and the Apocalypse Peaks to the edge of the Barwick Valley , where it ends as a hanging glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 based on the name of the heavily jagged Haselton Icefall in the upper part of the glacier after George M. Haselton of the United States Antarctic Program , assistant geologist under Parker Emerson Calkin (1933-2017) in a research campaign in the years 1961 to 1962 in this region.
Web links
- Haselton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haselton Glacier on geographic.org (English)